a small shrill pipe, like a piccolo flute, used to accompany the drum in military music > Used in “Sound, Sound the Clarion,” #fife. [G] [Photo]
fluttering
a light, rapid movement, resembling wings or leaves in the wind
frazzled
adjective / fraz-uhld / frazzle / frazzles / frazzling (Emotions) utterly exhausted and tattered on the outside I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror to count freckles reaches out toward herself and that reflection has turned into that of a woman on her wedding day, righting her veil. And how, when that bride blinks, she reopens her eyes to see a frazzled young mother trying […]
fuzzy
adjective / fuhz-ee / fuzzier / fuzziest / fuzziness / fuzzily / (Touching) Covered in short fur or having an unclear surface(Seeing) Blurry and difficult to identify(Patterns & Shapes) Having unclear or blended edges where assumptions are made (Emotions) Warm and sentimental I had a dream about you. I opened your chest like a cabinet, it had doors, and when I opened the doors, I saw all kinds of soft things inside you–teddy bears, tiny fuzzy animals, all these soft, […]